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Old 29-05-2005   #10
tott
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Originally Posted by kit
A little bit ' higher up the scale accent ' that serves the same purpose in less Hoxton , Shoreditch media-person blagger mode ( eg Hathan Barley ) environments is ' Estuary English ' - eg Thames Estuary English . Politicians like
' Tony Blair ' adopt this when they address ' the common people ' .

There , I've made you even MORE ' flummoxed ' .
I understand "flummoxed" I think... That's about it.

But thanks for posting, and Phoebe does seem to be pleasantly grounded, doesn't she?